Lot 379

ROCK CRYSTAL TRIPOD CENSER WITH COVER
LATE QING DYNASTY TO REPUBLIC PERIOD, 19TH-20TH CENTURY




Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
清末民初 水晶雕獅耳銜環三足蓋爐 帶木座
the censer raised on three cabriole feet, the mouth applied with a pair of dragon head handles with suspending rings, the cover carved en suite with three mask handles with rings below a crouching lion dog finial, on a reticulatedly carved bespoke stand
Dimensions
15cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Paxton House. From the collection of H.W. Robertson, Taipan for Butterfield & Swire in Shanghai then Hong Kong 1906-1912, whose son married the heiress to Paxton House in Berwickshire; thence by descent.
Paxton House is situated on the banks of the River Tweed, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. Designed by John and James Adam in 1758, it is perhaps the finest example of an eighteenth-century Palladian country house in Britain and contains a pre-eminent collection of Chippendale furniture. In 1811, the Edinburgh architect Robert Reid added the largest purpose-built picture gallery in a Scottish country house.



